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Incredibly rare, that is, for everyone except for police. “As a civilian, you have roughly a chance of 11/162,000 to avoid indictment. Police, by contrast, are almost never indicted; in Houston, for example, no officer has been indicted in a decade.” #Ferguson #AbolishThePolice

“Targeted killing.” “A new analysis of the data available to the public about drone strikes, conducted by the human-rights group Reprieve, indicates that even when operators target specific individuals – the most focused effort of what Barack Obama calls “targeted killing” – they kill vastly more people than their targets, often needing to strike multiple times. Attempts to kill 41 men resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1,147 people, as of 24 November.” “Attempts to kill 41 men resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1,147 people, as of 24 November.” “Attempts to kill 41 men resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1,147 people, as of 24 November.” “Attempts to kill 41 men resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1,147 people, as of 24 November.” #USOut #NoWar

The police are irresponsible and unaccountable. That is what makes them the police. Unless we hold them accountable. The law, for its part, will never curtail the racist violence of the law. #AbolishThePolice #SupportYourLocalCopWatch

Dear Anti-War Libertarians & Conservatives: if you want to get an idea of what a Rand Paul presidency would look like, I recommend you ask some anti-war Leftists how they are feeling about the Obama administration’s foreign policy right now. Sincerely, An Member of the Anti-war Left. #NoHopeInElectoralPolitics #NoMatterWhoYouVoteForTheWinnerIsAlwaysTheGovernment

Did I just seriously read some libertarian dude reacting to a feminist criticism of Disney’s The Little Mermaid by saying “I love it when old things are viewed and understood through a modern cultural context. lol.” Dude this isn’t Aristophanes. That movie came out when I was 8 years old. I saw it in the theater with my little sister. This “it was a different time!” thing is rapidly approaching serious appeals to what I once (in ancient times, back in 2007) introduced as a reductioad absurdum of banging on this kind of argument no matter how recent the events were. http://ift.tt/1rehXGx

Good lord Ovid, what is even up with this syntax?

I am glad that they included Vera, but saddened that they left out Number One.